## Copyright (C) 2013 Vytautas Jančauskas
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{value} =} get (@var{recorder}, @var{name})
## Returns the @var{value} of the property identified by @var{name}.
## @end deftypefn
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{values} =} get (@var{recorder}, @{@var{name1}, @dots{}, @var{namen}@})
## Returns the @var{values} of the properties identified by @var{name1} to
## @var{namen}.
## @end deftypefn
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{values} =} get (@var{recorder})
## Returns a scalar structure with values of all properties of @var{recorder}.
## The field names correspond to property names.
## @end deftypefn

function result = get (varargin)
  recorder = varargin{1};
  properties = __get_properties__ (recorder);
  if nargin == 1
    result = properties;
  elseif nargin == 2
    if ischar (varargin{2})
      result = getfield (properties, varargin{2});
    else
      result = {};
      index = 1;
      for property = varargin{2}
        result{index} = getfield (properties, char (property));
        index = index + 1;
      endfor
    endif
  else
    error ("audiorecorder: wrong number of arguments to the get method");
  endif
endfunction